Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns emplaced. Though some of these were knocked out, the enemy clung stubbornly to pillboxes and other fixed defenses. Most of the 1,017 Americans announced as killed in the first three weeks of the campaign had died in this sector, where the 43rd Division (Major General Leonard F. Wing) and the 158th Regimental Combat Team (Brigadier General Hanford MacNider) were fighting...
Thin, icy air American flyers encounter as they wing their way through the stratosphere, the moist tropical heat of South Pacific jungles, the dry, numbing cold of our Aleutian outposts are all being reproduced in the University's unique Fatigue Laboratory. Here a group of doctors and scientists study the effects such diverse weather conditions will have upon the energies of fighting men. Special diets are prepared and new insulated or even electrically heated clothing developed to protect our armies, equipping them in advance against the rigors of hitherto unknown climates...
...Ibis dropped into the office last night with the news that the boys at the Bow Street aviary had renounced their schoolboy pranks and were embarking into the complex scientific world of public opinion research. To prove his point, the faithless Ibis took some proof-sheets from under a wing and read excerpts...
Cornell, who went to Italy last August for two months (sponsored by the American Theater Wing), will soon round out a six-month European tour. After 77 Italian performances in 78 days, and 60 more in France, The Barretts was shivering in Paris last week. Oil burners were hidden around the stage; Actress Cornell was draped in a lace centerpiece to hide her khaki-underwear neckline...
...each with an entrance of its own, plainly marked for the visitor who wants to know exactly where he is going. Tentative titles for the five new entrances: the Museum of Ancient Art, the Museum of Oriental Art, the Picture Gallery, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the Early American Wing...